A former Hull city council leader and police authority chairman was recently [17th July 2006] cleared of a series of child abuse charges.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court found Colin Inglis not guilty of five allegations of indecent assault against a teenage boy at Hull Children's Home more than 20 years ago.
Inglis, the former leader of Hull City Council and chairman of Humberside Police Authority, was cleared of a sixth charge involving the same complainant - who is now 37 years old - on Friday.
Today, the jury of six men and six women returned majority verdicts on each of the five counts.
The jury returned its majority verdict after they heard the complainant describe how Inglis, of Wellington Street West, Hull, allegedly performed sex acts on him when he was a resident at Spring Cottage Children's Home in Hull where Inglis worked as a social worker.
The court was told that Inglis' relationship with the boy had been examined in a previous police investigation into Spring Cottage in 1997, which did not lead to any charges.
But the jury was not told that the complainant was among a number of people who made allegations against Inglis at the time.
The 49-year-old has always strenuously denied all the allegations and was cleared by the jury today.
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